On Friday, February 22nd, Ramesh Pyndiah, Director of Research and Innovation at IMT Atlantique, Samir Saoudi, Head of the Signal and Communications Department, hosted a delegation from the Japanese research centre Riken. On this occasion, the two partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate scientific and educational collaboration between IMT Atlantique and Riken.
The day continued with a workshop, coordinated by Pierre Tandeo, -researcher in the Signal and Communications Department, on data assimilation: a method used in meteorology and oceanography to combine numerical forecasts with satellite observations in order to obtain the best possible predictions. Machine learning methods applied to environmental data were also presented.

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by Pierre-Hervé VAILLANT